Ukraine: Life in Occupied Izyum
Communication is sketchy in the Russian-occupied city as former residents try to locate loved ones struggling to access fuel, food and water.
Communication is sketchy in the Russian-occupied city as former residents try to locate loved ones struggling to access fuel, food and water.
Survivor describes heavy bombing, food shortages and intense loneliness of the siege.
“We felt a terrible sense of guilt that we were safe, and there were people left in danger.”
Ukraine’s second largest city is critical for control of the country’s east, but resistance is holding up.
A family describes the “hell” of days under Russian bombardment without water, fuel or contact with the outside world.
Refugees continues to flock westwards, with more than two million crossing into Poland.
Civil society mobilises as western city becomes a hub for those displaced by the war.
The southern city was the first to fall, but thousands of people are confronting Moscow’s tanks and soldiers.
Prevented from fighting for Karabakh, diaspora community sends aid and funding.
After entrapment and interrogation, a series of prisons and finally a miraculous release.